Right now Google is rolling it out with a few select partners, such as Halfbrick’s classic slasher Fruit Ninja.

Currently it offers users a demo of the app, which is relatively unstable, but in the future Google plans to roll out full functionality.

Users simply need to search the web for an app of their choosing and those featuring a Try Now label are available for streaming. Those which aren’t compatible will offer a link to the Play Store instead.

The idea is geared towards supporting Google’s mobile ads business.

If users are getting most of their content from apps, rather than from the web, then Google loses out big time when it comes to selling ads.

The plan, Google hopes, will keep Android users coming to the web for their content, which allows it to make bank from serving ads.

You can see a little preview of the app streaming in the video (via 9to5Google) below. Here are some details from Google on becoming a tester.

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